A Florida student who was 16 when she was raped by her high school geometry teacher was awarded $49.3 million in damages. According to the Miami Herald. the victim, now 20, accused Bresnniel Jansen Mones in a 2014 lawsuit that the South Dade Senior High School teacher sent her texts that originally were about school but escalated into conversations …
A judge had harsh words—and a prison sentence—for a Virginia man who confessed to performing sex acts on his Rottweilers. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Stephen Matthew Taylor, 31, was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty. The charges stemmed from an investigation of his roommate, Craig Knox, 36, on multiple charges, including rape of a child. Police …
One of the women who has accused actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson of sexual assault has come forward with a statement criticizing Netflix for appearing to ignore the multiple allegations against Masterson, who co-stars with Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix series The Ranch. Publicly identifying herself for the first time, Chrissie Carnell Bixler, a former Scientologist …
Louis CK’s self-financed film I Love You, Daddy will not be released in theaters following a New York Times investigative report alleging that the popular comic forced multiple women to watch him masturbate. Vanity Fair reports that the film’s distributor, The Orchard, has cancelled the release of the movie, which was controversial even before the …
AYER, Mass. (AP) — Former Rep. Anthony Weiner reported to prison Monday to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner is being held at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. The facility in Ayer, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston, has over …
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein may be facing more than just industry banishment and sex addiction rehab in the wake of dozens of sexual assault allegations. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce reportedly said in a news conference Friday that authorities now “have an actual case” against the megaproducer, who has been accused of rape by …
A Citibank business manager is behind bars after a group of “pedophile hunters” tracked him down when he tried to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex. A Facebook group, known as the Internet Interceptors, apparently posed as a 14-year-old while Citibank manager, Balachandran Kavungalparambath, allegedly took the bait. The bank manager sent numerous …
Actress Annabella Sciorra has alleged that Harvey Weinstein violently assaulted her and repeatedly stalked her at the height of her career. The Jungle Fever and Copland actress spoke to Ronan Farrow for the New Yorker weeks after an earlier investigative report about Weinstein’s alleged pattern of sexually predatory behavior opened the floodgates about a long-held …
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that individuals considered “serious sex offenders” can attend church even if the facilities offer Sunday school or child care where minors are present. According to the CNHI Statehouse Reporter, the appellate court overturned a Boone Superior Court ruling that three sex offenders couldn’t attend churches that offered programs that …
A convicted rapist who police caught working as a security guard at a California rape counseling center was recently sentenced to five years behind bars on weapons charges. KFSN reported that Damon Rodgers served 13 years in prison for a series of rapes he committed in Madera County in the ’90s. Alarmingly, authorities discovered in late July …
Another woman has come forward to accuse director Roman Polanski of molesting her when she was a minor. Artist Marianne Barnard revealed to The Sun that Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, allegedly assaulted her during a disturbing “photo shoot” in California in …
The editorial director of a large digital media company has been fired for misconduct, after a former employee published a viral blog post implicating him in sexually aggressive behavior. On Thursday, Vox Media reportedly announced in an internal statement that editorial director Lockhart Steele had been fired, effective immediately. The Awl obtained the statement sent to …
